While we already have a good scintilla editor component support via
Wx::StyledTextCtrl in Perl, we already suffer from an older scintilla package
and thus lagging Perl support in the popular Wx Scintilla component. wxWidgets
<http://wxwidgets.org> has a *very slow* release timeline. Scintilla is a
contributed project which means it will not be the latest by the time a new
wxWidgets distribution is released. And on the scintilla front, the Perl 5 lexer
is not 100% bug free even and we do not have any kind of Perl 6 support in
Scintilla.

The ambitious goal of this project is to provide fresh Perl 5 and maybe 6
support in Wx while preserving compatibility with Wx::StyledTextCtrl
and continually contribute it back to Scintilla project.

Note: You cannot load Wx::STC and Wx::Scintilla in the same application. They
are mutually exclusive. The wxSTC_... events are handled by one library or
the other.

At the moment, Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS) and Windows (Strawberry
and ActivePerl) are supported platforms. My next goal is to support more
platforms. Please let me know if you can help out :)

Perl lexer enhanced for handling minus-prefixed barewords, underscores in
numeric literals and vector/version strings, D and Z similar to END, subroutine
prototypes as a new lexical class, formats and format blocks as new lexical
classes, and / suffixed keywords and barewords.

Release 1.71

Perl lexer allows UTF-8 identifiers and has some other small improvements.

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